⁴⁶ And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

¹ Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

⁶ Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

² The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

³ All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

⁴ They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

⁴⁵ And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them.

⁵² A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

¹³ Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.